ARTS CORNER: Take a break from the busy city

The Metro Vancouver area, once so under-populated that there was a parking space in downtown Vancouver when you wanted it, has caught up to other cities—we are as frantic, chaotic, crowded and gridlocked as larger cities were decades ago.

Burnaby, too, has its traffic jams. So might slowing down be a good idea?

Take Your Time is a group exhibition that offers a sampling of local figurative, narrative painting that explores some of the many “laid-back possibilities” that Metro Vancouverites may have forgotten about. The show is about forms of leisure, the idea of which is not new in local painting. Charles H. Scott, for instance, after whom the gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design is named, set a relaxed tone in many of his 1930s paintings. These eight artists show how the depiction of leisure in local painting has evolved from then to now.

They may not come out and say so but, as a group, these painters suggest that our accelerated society might want to take a deep breath and reconsider how we do things. Reading, sunning at a beach or spending time at a café are three examples of “taking our time” in these paintings.

I encourage you to stop by for a “Time” out.

The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Friday and noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday. There is free short-term parking at the rear of the Cornerstone Building in UniverCity—just go to the VB Lot and you’ll see the 20 minute free parking spaces. A map is on the gallery website.

• Four of the artists in Take Your Time will discuss their ideas at a panel discussion at the SFU Vancouver Campus (515 W. Hastings St.), on Tuesday Nov. 17, 7 p.m., in Room 7000.

Take Your Time

An exhibition at the SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus: Oct. 31 - Dec. 12,

Paintings by: Rebecca Brewer, Ron den Daas, Colleen Heslin, Damian Moppett, Heather Passmore, Gary Pearson, Ben Reeves and Neil Wedman

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